Informal Prayer Quotes & Sayings

I kind of peak at how far I can push my body, and then I run out of determination for the habit and start easing off. It's really just a lack of focus and discipline. — Sean Astin

I hate the assumption that you can't write about something because you haven't experienced it, and not just because it assumes a limit on the human imagination, which is basically limitless. It also suggests that some leaps of identification are impossible. I refuse to accept that, because it leads to the conclusion that real change is beyond us, and so is empathy. The idea is false on the evidence. Like shit, change happens. — Stephen King

Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present. — Elie Wiesel

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. — Carl Jung

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog. — Tucker Max

WHILE THE WORLD IS not a vale of tears, there are times when it seems more so than others. As strong as we may be, these are the times we need a special power - the potent strength of the Divine Feminine. — Kris Waldherr

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead. — Marcus Aurelius

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition. — Julius Caesar

I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction. — Emile Zola

As it happens with many people who do not trouble about religion in the ordinary trend of life, I hastily invented a soft, warm, tear-misty God, and whispered an informal prayer. Let me get there in time, let him hold out till I come, let him tell me his secret. Now it was all snow: the glass had grown a grey beard. — Vladimir Nabokov

Bad weather makes for good photography. — Ansel Adams

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact is that Margaret Thatcher was never really a Conservative. — Robert Rhodes James

You are not attracting the wrong people, you are simply accepting them. Saying 'No' frees you up so you can say 'Yes' when you truly want to. — Malti Bhojwani

I was cold, hungry, and in a hole in the ground. But at least I had my elven porn, damnit! — Kim Harrison

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims. — Alan Barth